Motown Quotes · Page 2

I'd heard a lot of Motown and Stax when I was a kid, but the more well-known end of it. On Jam…

— Paul Weller

I love Motown, that whole era. Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson. I just put on Pandora, and put it on Motown, and it…

— Tika Sumpter

'Let's Get It On' is a classic Motown single, endlessly repeatable and always enjoyable.

— Jon Landau

I feel Motown really exploited me.

— Brenda Holloway

I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for…

— Jack White

Well, I had an after hours club in Vancouver and when any of the Motown acts would call.

— Tommy Chong

Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939…

— Quincy Jones

The Beatles were huge. And the first thing they said when you interviewed them, 'Oh yeah, we grew up on Motown.'..They were…

— Smokey Robinson

Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician…

— Tommy Chong

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

— L'Wren Scott

I grew up with Cher and Motown, beautiful costumes.

— Tina Knowles

I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in.…

— Timothy B. Schmit

The first writers I knew about were Motown's Holland-Dozier-Holland.

— Lisa Stansfield

Rock and roll came in and changed my life and changed the whole music scene forever, and then I grew to love…

— Elton John

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the…

— Smokey Robinson

Motown wasn't just pioneering a sound but a cultural dynamic.

— Suzanne de Passe

When I first got to Motown, Smokey was already a fixture there. To me, he is one of the greatest songwriters and…

— Dennis Edwards

My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened…

— Robert Palmer

We call 'Ain't No Mountain' the golden egg that landed us at Motown.

— Nickolas Ashford

Definitely just growing up in general influenced me; Detroit happened to be where I was. I feel like the city definitely has…

— Big Sean

I grew up listening to a lot of that stuff, Motown and Stooges. But also early rock-and-roll like Chuck Berry, Little Richard,…

— Alex Winston

I thought wasn't nobody supposed to get gold records except those people on Motown, like Smokey Robinson and Diana Ross.

— Wilson Pickett

Ron White was not one of the very first original members of the Motown staff, but eventually he was.

— Smokey Robinson

'Head Over Boots' is a shuffle, but it's more of a Motown laid-back shuffle than, say, a Dwight Yoakam shuffle.

— Jon Pardi

The only recording studio was in Motown - it was called Tamla/Motown at that time and we used to audition there because…

— Diana Ross